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This trip from private equity to public conglomerate and back wasn't pointless. According to company calculations, if you count every spinoff and asset sale--plus a $2.8 billion shareholder lawsuit payout in the wake of the CUC mess--a dollar invested in HFS when it went public in 1992 would be worth more than $14 now--a 22% annual return, or more than double the performance of the S&P 500. Which means Silverman is probably worth listening to on one of the great questions of our day: Is it better for a company to be traded...
...desired to hit the masses, and money is the number one thing on the masses' minds," says Bob Rainone, a former IBM salesman and telcom exec who now serves as Byrne's U.S. business partner. Wealth enhancement is also part of the The Secret's business plan. Among the spinoff books expected in 2007 are The Secret Workbook and a collection of The Secret Success Stories. Byrne will also begin filming a sequel to The Secret in January, for an August release; Rainone says it will explore "the next step, the next level" in the process of achieving...
...rights, this spinoff of Stephen Colbert's supercilious Daily Show correspondent character should have have one good week in it, two, tops. But sharp writing and Colbert's wholehearted inhabiting of his blowhard alter ego showed that there's as much potential in mocking cable opinion shows as in the news itself. Like The Daily Show, the show is uneven -- between the pair, you've got 14 minutes of solid comedy every night -- but it's worth catching for Colbert's nightly editorial, "The W?rd," in which his bluster is counterpointed by commentary from the on-screen graphics. This...
...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction Blood+ (which debuts in Japan Oct. 8 on TBS) is a spinoff of the 2000 film Blood: The Last Vampire, Japan's first digital feature-length anim?, which won critical acclaim from the likes of James Cameron and Quentin Tarantino. TV series derived from old movies tend to be as reliably bad as movies derived from old TV series, but Blood+ should buck the trend. The effects budget is high for TV, and Production I.G.?the team behind the original film and groundbreaking anim? such as Ghost in the Shell?signed...
...billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions become a commonplace in today's corporate world, many executives are finding that making spinoff deals may be easier than managing behemoth-size businesses. Last week Allied-Signal, the product of a $5 billion merger made just seven months ago, announced that it would be divesting itself of some 30 divisions, whose sales total $3 billion. The slimmed-down company plans to focus on its aerospace, automotive and chemicals groups. As part of the restructuring, Allied-Signal plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs and take other cost-cutting measures that should generate savings of about...